An Iliadic Odyssey as a song of the Sirens
2020.09.18 | By Gregory Nagy §0. This essay, overtly about the Odyssey of “Homer,” is a playful experiment. But it is based on a draft of a short essay that is quite serious in intent. I am about to submit for online publication a text of that essay to a colleague whose work on comparative epic I very much admire - and whose identity I cannot yet reveal because the… Read more